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The trvteK-Joumil, Greenwood, Jan. 21. 1984 5 EVENING -V' 1 A 1 Tonight's TV Dexter along on a camping trip, one mistake after another keeps Dexter from enjoying the outdoor Me 9:00 fl IshowI MOVIE: 'Cat People' A sister and brother share a strange and horrible secret. Nastassia Kmski, Malcolm McDowell. John Heard.

1982. Rated R. 0 NCAA Basket Purdue at Winois II Pathfinders Cl Love Boat Two sisters meet for me first tune in 40 years, a childless couple who want to have a child wmd up in separate cabins and Isaac shows favor to a pretty student in his bartending class (60 rmn.) ICtosed Captioned! (E MOVIE: 'Making Love' A young woman must face the knowledge that her husband is love with another man. Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Michael Ontkean 1981. We Got It Made 0 Scotsman Notebook 9:30 Mama's Family Mama and Naomi wind up court suing each other.

Qi Lesson 0 Unknown War 45 10:00 OS) VeHow Rose After helping an elderly bank robber escape trom prison. Chance avoids trouble when a warden agrees to make no charges provided the old fellow comes back within 24 hours (60 mm.) Sii-Gun Heroes CD QJ Fantasy Island ID (i Independent Network News 10:30 News CD (34 Rock Church 10:45 TBS Evening News 11:00 Cl I SHOW I Bizarre Cl Sport enter OCOOCZ)C9C9CBS3 News tt Action-Packed Cliffhangers 11:15 ABC News Open the GatesTroy 11:30 0 ISHOWl MOVIE: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' A woman passion leads to a love affair with her aristocratic husband ga mekeeper. Sylvia Knstel, Shane Briant. Nicholas Clay. 1981 Rated CD Saturday Night Live Cl Paul Hogan MOVIE: 'The Big Sleep' Detective Phillip Marlowe is embroiled in blackmail, murder and underworld crime.

Robert 1:00 (SHOW) flocfc of ttw to Spandau BaHrt and Othsrs Spandau Ballet. Roman Hobday and the Blasters highlight this Showtime video special. II GD To Ba Announced II Wood Champtonsnip WnMttJng Welcome Back Kotter Awaraneaa (J Lawrence We HOI SJO i) SporteCerrter IK (1) Dane Fever (I Stepping Out Little House on the Prairie NBC News CBS News (9 This Week in Country Music ISHOWl MOVIE: -Best Friends' Two Vietnam veterans, along with their wives, go cross-country in a camper to recapture the good ok) days.1 Richard Hatch. Douglas Crispin. Susanna Burton.

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(Closed Captioned) CD 09 Joyful News (3 NCAA Basketball: Western Carolina at Furman Silver Spoons When Ricky Invites 7:00 7:30 8:00 1:30 -1- the Sky perform in Dallas Sky are reviving of singing cowboys Lout-minute cheilule chanftfi may bp made nplHurlrt ir Will the Super Bowl be a super bore? Riders in Riders in the songs, myths By PETER APPLEB0ME N.Y. Times News Service DALLAS It is safe to say there axe surer paths to fame and fortune these days than a career as a singing cowboy. Men on horseback strumming guitars have been all but extinct smce 1954, when a film called "The Phantom Stallion" brought to an end one of Hollywood's most colorful eras, a time when dozens of singing cowboys turned out literally hundreds of now-all-but-forgotten films. But despite being 30 years out of date, three musicians who call themselves Riders in the Sky are building a demonstrative following by reviving the songs and the myths of the singing cowboys of the 1930s and 1940s. Riders in the Sky, who dress in out- to a Mitchum.

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see us. 3:15 5:15 7:15 9:15 linnitniiiiniinM izes that it will be seen by more than 100 million viewers in the United States alone. Two of the most important of the 215 are Pat Summerall and John Madden, who will be the commentators for the game. It's only right that a game featuring the two best teams should feature two of the best football commentators to ever put on a headset. RUDD'S PIPE RACK 318 Main St.

on ihe urc PIPE CLEARANCE SALE Values to 30 00 New Boda Pipes Now Arriving More than A good Come UU Uii Uil I Va. I ii ii i nil 'People think of this stuff as mere camp, but there's something wonderful about a music of the out-of-doors, wide-open spaces and independent living. We'd all like to ride the High Sierras. Doug Green si I dates to the days of the open range, when cowboys adapted old ballads, black spirituals, Irish jigs and Scottish reels to relieve the boredom of their work. But it was Cole Porter, after all, who wrote "Don't Fence Me In," and most of the singing cowboy music of the 30s and 40s was a creation of contemporary balladeers or the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley.

The first westerns featuring singing cowboys cropped up in the early 1930s, and in 1934 when Ken Maynard and Gene Autry made a film called "In Old Santa Fe" the singing cowboy became a national craze. The result was hundreds of films, ranging from the predictable tumbleweed sagas like Roy Rogers's "Under Western Stars" and Autry's "Melody Trail" to such oddities as "Hawaiian Buckaroo," in which the big band leader Smith Ballew rode tall in the saddle across a Hawaiian cattle ranch and pineapple plantation. Perhaps the least likely entry in the singing cowboy ranks was Herb Jeffries, a black ballad singer from Detroit who starred in such black singing cowboy epics as "Bronze Buckaroo." The genre began to peter out in the 1950s, and when the films stopped so did the music. The venerable Sons of the Pioneers, who wrote such classics as "Tumbling Tumbleweed" and "Cool Water," are still around, but otherwise the western half of country and western music has been all but defunct since the 1950s. Riders in the Sky have taken a strange road to success, with no hit records and little national publicity.

But they are hosts of the Tumbleweed Theater on cable television and have built a word-of-mouth following, particularly in the Southwest and West. in their show, a mixture of music and comedy, the group yodels and does coyote calls in three-part harmony and LaBour performs the theme from "Bonanza" by slapping his face. Their repertory ranges from songs of the Old West like "I Ride an Old Paint" to cowboy standards from the40s like "Jingle Jangle Jingle" and "Ghost Riders in the Sky" to their own originals. It is, they admit, music from another, vanished era, but Green thinks it has merit that goes far beyond nostalgia. "It's a very naive, romantic music that reflects a very innocent reflection of the American dream.

It's certainly a more noble music than the standard country songs about getting drunk, falling off bar stools and swapping wives. 1-3-5-7-9 lt' Not Human. Pieces WHI youbtlht "THE mxiVKlimr i 1 1 Sun toacoidworUjKW rawdjraur friend THE BIG CHILL ES TrWEEEEJ It's not human and If I i2 mil) its ft 1 UU-UHU do it. Other kids spent their time listening to Gene Autry and Tex Rit-ter and grew up to be singing cowboys." Riders in the Sky began performing five years ago in Nashville and have spent most of their time since then crisscrossing the country in a Dodge van with a piece of tumbleweed hanging from the back door. The three members, none of whom claim to approximate an authentic cowboy, are as unlikely a trio as the music they've chosen to perform.

Green, who bills himself as Ranger Doug, the Idol of American Youth, is well-known Nashville musician and country-music historian. Fred LaBour, or Too Slim, says that he started the "Paul McCartney is dead" rumor as a student at the Uni- versity of Michigan in the 1960s. The fiddle player, Woody Paul Chrisman, who prefers his Riders name of Woody Paul, the King of the Cowboy Fiddlers, has a doctorate in applied plasma physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in addition to being one of the most respected fiddlers in Nashville. But if the group goes back only five years, its roots go to the 1930s and 1940s, when singing cowboys were, to many in the younger generation at least, the pop stars of their day, much as rock stars are now. According to Green, who has written a book on the subject called "Country Roots" (Hawthorn Books) as well as articles for musical journals, singing cowboys had three parents: the romantic West of novels such as Zane Grey's "Rider of the Purple Sage;" the cinematic West, which began in 1903 with "The Great Train Robbery," and the musical West, which first began reaching Americans via radio around 1925.

In its purest form, cowboy music TRAVEL COURSES NEWBERRY-Newberry College is offering five travel courses during the May term the term sandwiched between the May 6 commencement and the beginning of the regular summer session on June 11. The courses will offer the opportunity to tour Mexico, study on Wall Street, tour South Carolina's battlefields, do a political internship in Washington, D.C., and learn the concepts of outdoor education by camping. For further information, contact Donna Brummett, Director of Summer School, Office of Academic Affairs, Newberry College, Newberry, S.C. 29108. Seafood, Steak Salad Bar By PETER McCAULEY This year's Super Bowl, No.

18 if you're counting, is being hyped as 'the greatest 60 minutes in sports." Aw, c'mon, guys. Who's going to believe that? Can anyone even remember who the two teams were last year? OK, if you recall that it was the Washington Redskins and the Miami Dolphins, who won and what was the score? (it was 27-17, Washington). The Super Bowl may decide the best team in football sorry USFL fans, but it's true but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the best game. Of the 17 previous games only one was decided by three points or less. Can you remember which team won that game and how? It was 13 years ago and the Baltimore Colts beat the Dallas Cowboys when Jim O'Brien kicked a 32-yard field goal with five seconds left.

But with a nod to Joe Namath for his 1969 peformance in the game Bubba Smith says was fixed, the Super Bowl has usually been a super bore. The most fans can hope for is a memorable individual performance, such as John Riggens' record 166 yards rushing last year. Or maybe this year somebody will pull a bonehead play like Garo Yepremian did in 1973. Remember the dead-duck pass the Miami kicker attempted only to have the Redskins' Mike Bass gather it up and run 49 yards for a score? These are the sort of Super Bowl memories most of us harbor. While the games have not gotten better over the years, the technology in covering them has.

On Sunday, Jan 22, when allthe pre-game hoopla is thankfully over, the CBS telecast will require the talents of approximately 215 people. That's not bad when one real SUtO THEATRE BURT REYNOLDS ANDREWS Hot Dog -A. they get to Ih top. 1-3-5-7-9 got an axe IV TONITE 4 SUN. 7:00 8:50 ffl.m.M.'U.'.fl if EDuS landish western garb and bring along props like wooden cactuses, a weathered saddle and a token piece of tumbleweed, serve up a vision of the Old West that's as much "Blazing Saddles" as "High Noon." A typical song that they perform, "How the Yodel Was Born," posits the plausible theory that the cowboy's yodel got its start when a bronco rider made a particularly painful landing on the saddle horn of a horse he'd just been bucked from.

But at the heart of what they do is a great amount of affection for an almost vanished, surprisingly moving form of distinctively American music. "People think of this stuff as mere camp, but there's something wonderful about a music of the out-of-doors, wide-open spaces and independent living' said Doug Green, the group's founder. "We'd all like to ride the High Sierras." Green calls cowboy music "wonderfully rich, complex." "It's the music that many of us grew up listening to," he said. "Some kids want to be firemen and grow up Mailbag. SCHOLARSHIP NEWBERRY The Karl and Esther Kinard Memorial Scholarship has been established at Newberry College by the family and friends of the late Dr.

and Mrs. Karl Kinard. The endowed scholarship will be awarded to a qualified student needing financial help to further hisher college education, with first preference given to South Carolina Lutherans. Dr. Kinard, president emeritus of the South Carolina Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, was a 1922 graduate of Newberry College.

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